The 3rd International Colloquium on Tourism and Leisure (ICTL).

Bangkok, Thailand, from 6-9th July 2009.

The overall aim of the conference is to provide a lively forum for academics and professionals to meet and exchange interesting new research and ideas in an informal, interdisciplinary setting.

We are now accepting abstracts for papers in any area related to tourism and leisure, but we particularly encourage critical and interdisciplinary papers in the areas of eco-tourism, space tourism, women in tourism, theories of tourism, sex tourism, exploitation, phenomenological approaches, tourism and the environment, health tourism, tourism and risk, developments in the travel industries, ethnographies of tourist attractions, tourism and globalization, sports studies, tourism and the life-course, ethnographies of leisure, and papers that address the cross-over between tourism and leisure theory and research. 

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All submissions will be refereed, and accepted papers will be included in the official conference proceedings, which will have an assigned ISBN number. Selected papers will be also published in an edited book.  

Venue: TBA

Dates: 6-9th July 2009. Registration is from 4-6pm on the 6th July in the reception room.

Fees: 575 US dollars. The fees include conference attendance, lunch and coffee for the duration, and one copy of the conference proceedings.

Hotels: Accommodation in Bangkok is plentiful and caters for all budgets.

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